Сири Хустведт

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition. While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a s...

Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris mochte eine "Pause". Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause viel junger als sie und uberdies Boris' Laborassistentin ist. Nach einer klinischen Depression braucht sie eine Pause, fahrt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt in Minnesota und verbringt den Sommer in der Nahe ihrer Mutter, die, mit neunzig noch ziemlich mun...

Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragicomic poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia?s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a ?pause.? This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia?s release from the hospital, she returns to...

Cuando Boris Izcovich dijo la palabra «pausa», Mia Fredricksen, de cincuenta y cinco años, que llevaba casada treinta años con Boris, enloqueció. Porque lo que deseaba su marido era una pausa en su matrimonio, después de treinta años sin adulterios por parte de ninguna de las partes –aunque parezca increíble–, una hija encantadora que iniciaba su carrera de actriz y una relación entre ellos que ha...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. Presented as a collection of texts compiled by...

Maruvihasena, et New Yorgi kunstimaailm talle kui naiskunstnikule tähelepanu ei pööra, korraldab Harriet Burden eksperimendi: ta varjab kolmel näitusel oma identiteedi erinevate meeskunstnike „maskide“ taha. Näituste edu näib kinnitavat Burdeni eeldust, et mehena on kunstimaailmas tähelepanu pälvida oluliselt lihtsam. Ent lugu lõpeb veelgi ebameeldivama puändiga: kui Harriet oma maskid langetab, e...

"За гранью нервного срыва" - книга писательницы, поэтессы, эссеиста и литературоведа Сири Хустведт, одной из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе, а кроме того, уже без малого тридцать лет жены другого известного романиста - Пола Остера. Хустведт рассказывает о своем нервном расстройстве, которое началось в тот день, когда она произнесла речь в память об умершем отце, и длило...

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition. While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a s...

Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris mochte eine "Pause". Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause viel junger als sie und uberdies Boris' Laborassistentin ist. Nach einer klinischen Depression braucht sie eine Pause, fahrt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt in Minnesota und verbringt den Sommer in der Nahe ihrer Mutter, die, mit neunzig noch ziemlich mun...

Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragicomic poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia?s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a ?pause.? This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia?s release from the hospital, she returns to...

Cuando Boris Izcovich dijo la palabra «pausa», Mia Fredricksen, de cincuenta y cinco años, que llevaba casada treinta años con Boris, enloqueció. Porque lo que deseaba su marido era una pausa en su matrimonio, después de treinta años sin adulterios por parte de ninguna de las partes –aunque parezca increíble–, una hija encantadora que iniciaba su carrera de actriz y una relación entre ellos que ha...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. Presented as a collection of texts compiled by...